But she acknowledged that Mr. Clarke did not regularly meet with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence.

"Perhaps Dick felt that he had, you know, less — he didn't sit with Powell and Rumsfeld and so forth," Ms. Rice said. "It's just not the way we operate. I did sit with Powell and Rumsfeld and Tenet."
He [Dick Clarke] was in "every meeting that was held on terrorism", yet "he didn't sit with Powell and Rumsfeld and so forth".

Does anyone else read that the only person who actually had meetings about terrorism was Rice and according to her words didn't share that with other people?

Let's see,
A. Claim your best efforts were not enough and apologize to the familes of people killed as a result.
B. Create a satire of a less-than-perfect efforts and make light of a situation where people were killed as a result.